the view from one of Sheffield's seven hills. After moving to the city, I walked each day from Crooksmoor to Psalter Lane, through the Botanical Gardens and good views of the city lodged themselves into my mind. Although George Orwell describes the city as a living hell during his visit in the thirties /in the GCSE revision book-stolen/ George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier, written in 1936. In it he writes: The town is very hilly (said to be built on seven hills, like Rome) and everywhere streets of mean little houses blackened by smoke run up at sharp angles, paved with cobbles which are purposely set unevenly to give horses etc, a grip. Now it is a rather attractive place, with the Pennines close by to act as the city's lungs, though now filled it seems, with thieves.